CrashingTheGoalie

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by Ron Spence
The off-season couldn’t have ended any other way.
There was a guy named Mike Danton who used to be Mike Jefferson who was released from prison. At the parole hearing, he claimed that he hadn’t been trying to kill his svengali hockey coach David Frost, but rather his father. 
His father then said that he [...]

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by Ron Spence

Why was Sean Avery suspended for talking about beautiful young women, and Patrick Kane not suspended after beating up an old man?

Will the Leafs’ total penalty minutes – in their first game – be the same as their total points for the season?

How long until Pat Quinn gets tired of Tom Renney’s long [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Stanley Cup is still making its rounds and everything imaginable has been dumped/put into the Cup.
One of my favourite stories concerns the 1940 Stanley Cup, won by the New York Rangers.
According to legend/urban myth, the Madison Square Gardens Corporation burned their mortgage in the bowl of the Cup and this started their [...]

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by Ron Spence
Brian Burke takes no prisoners. 
When Pavel asked to leave Vancouver – when Burke was the ‘nucks’ GM – he said:
 

“We’re not going to kiss anyone’s butt to play here. We have a beautiful arena, our own plane, and, again a great hockey market and one of the best cities in the world, so [...]

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Puck Daddy wrote a piece on:
Why coaching legend Ernie McLean will outlive us all
By Sean Leahy
And one of the comments was written by a self-effacing Habs’ fans:

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by Ron Spence
Some days are Clint Eastwood ones.
I prefer a FISTFULL OF DOLLARS. 
But, on August 18th/19th it was THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.
THE GOOD

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*****
THE BAD

*****
AND THE UGLY….

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FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, Ken Holland could have picked up a better player.

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Stay out of the corners.
Don’t get between this player and the boards.

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And close your eyes when she’s g…. d…. on the goalie.

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A man enters a bar and orders a drink.
The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, “What’s your IQ?”

The man replies “150″ and the robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum physics and spirituality, biochemistry, environmental interconnectedness, string theory, nano-technology, and sexual [...]

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